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Arts in Society

Microreview: Gillian Conoley, Peace

  • Daniel Tiffany
Class & Inequality

If Empathy Doesn’t Work, Try Religion

Relying on empathy to motivate charity means that it is not enough that the needy are humans, but they must also be lucky.

  • Claude S. Fischer
Arts in Society Politics

God’s Country

The making of American exceptionalism.

  • Richard White
Arts in Society

Of Fishiness, Flesh, and the Radical Undead

  • Jennifer Scappettone
Arts in Society

Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others

  • Katy Lederer
Arts in Society

Hart Crane in LA, 1927

  • Peter Balakian

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Class & Inequality Politics

Fighting Inequality in the New Gilded Age

Restoring genuine democracy must go beyond campaign finance.

  • K. Sabeel Rahman
Arts in Society

The Beauty in Anyone

  • Michael W. Clune
Arts in Society

Signaling at Any Cost

  • Danielle Pafunda
Arts in Society

Response to “Cheap Signaling”

  • Ammiel Alcalay
Arts in Society

Are Words Formed Out of a Hades Sort of Delight?

  • Aaron Kunin
Arts in Society

Some Thoughts on Class-ology

  • Chris Nealon
Politics

A Better Nation

Scotland’s independence referendum is a contest between the head and the heart, between love and money.

  • Stephen Phelan
Arts in Society

Olfactory Cues

  • Martha Zweig
Arts in Society

Zero at the Boner

An interview with Nola Gignere.

  • Carol Muske-Dukes
Politics

The Haifa Mob

On July 19 I joined a licensed march in Haifa against the Gaza war.

  • Noam Chayut
Class & Inequality

The Rhetoric of the “Achievement Jump”

Grades” and “scores” sound mechanical and impersonal, but “achievement” climbs and soars.

  • Colin Vanderburg
Law Politics

The American “Deportation Mill”

Immigrant families detained in Artesia, New Mexico, are suing the U.S. government

  • Lauren Carasik
Arts in Society

Poet’s Sampler: Ocean Vuong

  • Ocean Vuong
  • Amy King

Empathy vs. Rationality: The Ice Bucket Challenge

The interesting thing about the Challenge is that most of the participants do not seem particularly motivated by empathy.

  • Andrew Mayersohn
Arts in Society

Microreview: Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess, X Marks the Dress: A Registry

  • Clare Emily Clifford
Arts in Society

Overtaking

  • Sean Zhuraw

Poison Control

The EPA Steps Up Efforts to Protect Farm Workers from Pesticides

  • Susanna Bohme
Arts in Society

Some Other Being

An Interview with Brett Fletcher Lauer

  • William Brewer
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